Sociophobia : political change in the digital utopia /

Sociophobia : political change in the digital utopia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rendueles, César, author.
Uniform title:	Sociofobia. English
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture Insurrections.
Subject:	Internet -- Political aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Mass media -- Political aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Internet -- Political aspects. Mass media -- Political aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11834301

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ISBN:	9780231544375 0231544375 0231175264 9780231175265 0231175272 9780231175272 9780231175265 9780231175272
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Translated from the Spanish. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2017).
Summary:	The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El País, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.
Other form:	Print version: Rendueles, César. Sociophobia. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231175265
Standard no.:	10.7312/rend17526

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture
Ground Zero: Sociophobia
1. Digital Utopia
2. After Capitalism
Coda 1989
Notes
Index.